Event Dates
Time
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Event poster for Form, Purpose, and Design: A Musical Response to Corbusier. Courtesy of Gallery 881.
Event poster for Form, Purpose, and Design: A Musical Response to Corbusier. Courtesy of Gallery 881.
Performance
Form, Purpose, and Design: A Musical Response to Corbusier
ADMISSION
$30
Set amidst the exhibition CURRENT – Photography as Pause by students of ECUAD Photography, this musical performance is an improvisational modern classical music composed and structured by Jack Campbell in response to the theories outlined by Le Corbusier in his notorious historical essay Five Points of Architecture. Despite being widely influential in structural, visual, and physical mediums, the work of Corbusier has been largely unnoticed and unsung in the musical field. This piece—divided into five movements, each based on a different “point”—reflect and interpret such theorizing in three ways:
a) by directly modelling the compositional form of the piece after Corbusier’s structural theory
b) by considering Corbusier’s thinking on public engagement and role within the sonic textures of the piece to enhance a modernist listening experience c) and socially reflects in tambour, rhythm, harmony, and musical colour the theoretical and technical principles behind the concept Corbusier mobilizes.
This piece is an open-form, event-based/graphically-notated score composed by Jack Campbell, and performed by/improvised by the trio of Jack Campbell (Violin), Hank Bull (Piano), and John Morley Brennan (Percussion).
